Now, the team behind the video is giving us a peek into how they created the effects. In the video tutorial below, Joe from SFST shows how one of the light painting effects was created. Joe has also shared the raw footage so you can walk through the tutorial step-by-step without having to acquire your own shots (see the Vimeo page to download).

The light painting technique uses a slew of After Effects and Photoshop tools including adjustment layers, basic color grading, masking, tracking and batch automation. None of these steps is too complicated, but familiarization in these apps is essential – this isn’t for the Adobe newbie.